Guy Head

He learnt drawing under Captain John Bernard Gilpin, and eventually entered as a student at the Royal Academy.

In the latter year he also sent to the exhibition of the Society of Artists at Spring Gardens a painting of The Fire at London Bridge Waterworks and two portraits.

In 1781 he sent to the Royal Academy a landscape with the story of Europa, and a portrait of Henderson the actor as Richard III.

[1] With the help of a friend and introductions from Reynolds, Head went to Italy, and resided for some years at Rome.

[1] At the Revolutionary outbreak in 1798 he returned to England, with a large collection of drawings, copies, and other pieces, which he intended to exhibit, but died suddenly in London on 16 December 1800.